Louisiana Children’s Museum picks group for café at new campus

Louisiana Children’s Museum has selected a local partner to run a café at its new City Park campus that will be opening next year.

The museum said Tuesday that Dickie Brennan & Co. will operate Acorn, a 165-seat restaurant overlooking the park’s lagoon. Half the seats will be inside and the other half outside. The company was selected from an RFP process that began in August 2017, a news release said.

The café will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. initially, and hours could be expanded. Its menu will include some ingredients sourced from the museum’s garden, officials said. Acorn will also have a kids’ culinary lab, seasonal food carts and provide catering through Dickie Brennan & Co. for events held during and after hours at the museum.